Posted on 05/04/2020 4:35:31 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A Kansas City phased reopening guideline requiring churches to keep “lists” of attendees, has alarmed many who see it as an infringement on religious liberty and privacy.
In the policy issued by Mayor Quinton Lucas, houses of worship are treated with the same restrictions as “non-essential” businesses in terms of keeping records of who attends a service, or even anyone who enters the building.
“Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a FREE American people,” Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said. “Yet that is exactly what Kansas City’s misguided government officials are now demanding.”
Liberty Counsel, a law firm that handles religious liberty cases, tells the Todd Starnes Radio Show that they are representing several churches that allege their constitutional rights are being violated.
“I am running out of adjectives to describe how completely insane the tyrannical abuses launched by state governors and local officials against pastors and churches are becoming,” Staver said in a statement. “It is as if these leaders never bothered to so much as glance at the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend. They seem to be governing from some make-believe, dystopian viewpoint.”
The new policy states “In-person religious gatherings (including weddings and funerals) may resume, subject to the 10/10/10 rule (if held inside) or limited to 50 people outside, provided social distancing precautions are followed and event organizers maintain records of all attendees.”
But it is not the limit on people that has drawn the most concern, but the record-keeping. The new rule requires all churches to “record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of all customers who are on-premises for more than 10 minutes.”
This sounds scary for sure.
It reminds me of Communist countries where you could get killed just for visiting churches.
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities brutally suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests. Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated for the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union. However, most religions were never officially outlawed.
The state advocated the destruction of religion, and to achieve this goal, it officially denounced religious beliefs as superstitious and backward. The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues, and mosques, ridiculed, harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers. According to some sources, the total number of Christian victims under the Soviet regime has been estimated to range around 12 to 20 million.
China has the world’s greatest irreligious population, and the Chinese government and Communist Party is officially atheist. Despite limitations on certain forms of religious expression and assembly, religion is not banned, and religious freedom is nominally protected under the Chinese constitution.
Churches are also protected under our constitution too, but with the lates totalitarian changes it seems our constitution is no longer respected.
Gun Control laws make a mockery of the Second Amendment. That’s been the case for decades.
Now they make a mockery of the First Amendment’s Freedom of Religion.
The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.
Does the mayor require that other “non-essential” businesses turn over the names of their customers? The pastors should tell the mayor to go to hell.
Came out yesterday on a different case.
With a big FWIW....
Give them a big long list of fake names, starting with Haywood Jablowme.
Something similar is going to happen here.
Well...there might be one or two.
It is a rule, not a law.
The churches should submit a list with the names of the mayor and all the city council members on it.
Give them a list:
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
etc.
Send in arabic sounding names. abdul, achmed, hadjii, etc. Goose...gander.
Simply don’t comply.
It takes a subpoena.
George Jetson
Pepe Le Pew
Robin Hood
Barney Rubble
Little Black Sambo
Zorro
Speedy Gonzales
Steamboat Willie
Betty Boop
Jessica Rabbit
Better, just declare as a sanctuary church for illegal aliens.
Seymour Butz
Ophelia Butz
Ijaz Fahted
Chuck Wagon
Pete Moss
Give them a big long list of fake names, starting with Haywood Jablowme.
Jack Daniels
Jim Beam
Terry Cloth
Barb Wire
C’mon FReepers, add more!
Do Kansas Democrats oppose voter ID laws?
Jesus
Mateo
Migel
Juan
Tomas
Jose
They’ll prohibit further inquiry
Carlos Danger
Pierre Delecto
Just remember who’s doing this.
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